Maine Gov. LePage: 'When Hillary opens her mouth, people die'

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"But I will say this: When Hillary opens her mouth, people die." LePage said.

On Tuesday, LePage said maybe Trump needed to show "authoritarian power" as president to bring back the rule of law.

(CNN)Maine Gov. Paul LePage said in a radio interview Wednesday that when Hillary Clinton opens her mouth, "people die."

"I'll say this about the two presidential candidates: Donald Trump — OK, my grandmother's around, she gives him bar soap to clean his mouth out," LePage said on the "Howie Carr Show." "She did it to me all time. It's not a problem. But I will say this: When Hillary opens her mouth, people die."

On Tuesday, LePage said maybe Trump needed to show "authoritarian power" as president to bring back the rule of law. At a news conference on Wednesday, LePage backtracked slightly on those comments, saying, "Yesterday, I used the word authoritarian when I meant to use the word authoritative."

At the news conference, LePage added that President Barack Obama was a dictator.